Tuesday 6/5/2012
Cardio bag class at krav maga gym first. 1 hour. lots of core work and focus on proper punching mechanics. Didn't really do straight up interval training till the end. First 30 minutes was pretty "meh", because it was more about teaching noobs how to rotate into their punches than actually getting a good workout. Second half hour was pretty brutal - lots of exercises I'd ever done before with rubber bands, lots of twisting and balance work; not interval training, but exhausting.
Muay Thai about an hour and a half to 2 hours. Started out with speed kick rounds on the heavybag. Then shadow for a little bit. Did 3 rounds of hard boxing sparring with pretty much the top guy at the gym. We're within 6lbs of each other. I'm taller with longer arms, he's shorter with really muscular upper body. Sparring wasn't 1-sided, but still feel like I got my a$$ beat. He spars a lot more often than I do, so he was a lot more comfortable in there. I got a lot to work on. We were both wearing the new gloves I bought (the ones I was actually afraid of sparring with), surprisingly the gloves worked out really well. Finished up holding 3 rounds of pads (feeding kicks & punches) for my sparring partner and 3 rounds for the girl fighter. Kinda blew that nobody held for me (ran out of time); but I was pretty tired.
Thinking with this new routine - i'll workout late monday & tuesday; have a long muay thai day on wednesday; sparring day on saturday; take off Sunday and either Thursday or Friday, then use the other day for weights & jogging. Trying to spar as much as possible. I'll be happy if I can get over 100 rounds by the end of August.